Posted by
Ryan Hawkins on Thursday, November 05, 2009 4:17:17 PM
Someone recently sent a comment to me in response to my opposing views on Obamacare. Here is an excerpt of her response:
"I know a lot of you think it is horrible to have every American healthy and insured but oh well. I know I know it is horrible to think that an insurance company that makes billions is going to have to cover you know matter what and they can't drop you when your condition gets too expensive. Is that really such a bad thing. Wait, why do I care who has health insurance and who doesn't? I have great coverage and so does my daughter. Oh, I know why because I have a heart and care about human beings as a whole, not just mine."
...and here is my response to her:
Dear Ruth: (name changed to maintain her anonymity)
Just because I (along with tens of millions if not hundreds of millions) of Americans vehemently oppose the healthcare reform currently being proposed in congress doesn't mean we all believe the current healthcare system is perfect, nor does it mean we are all heartless human beings who only care about ourselves. I am absolutely livid that you (along with some disgustingly pathetic democrats) would even suggest that...it shows how ignorant you really are in this debate.
Most Americans (myself included) support healthcare reform - it is desperately needed. However, to fix the current system - we don't have to massively expand government and deficit-spend our way into oblivion. (That might be the way y'all handle things in California, but in case you haven't noticed the California state government is almost bankrupt.)
- It is okay to change the rules for heath insurance companies in such a way that they have to expand coverage to all Americans.
- It is okay to change the rules to prevent insurance companies from dropping coverage or omitting coverage for pre-existing conditions.
- It is okay for the government to divert some federal funding to help unemployed households maintain coverage.
- It is okay to knock down states' regulatory barriers that preclude more in-state competition between insurance companies
We can fix most of the problems without bringing in a ridiculous public option that creates far more problems than it fixes and that (via the inconsequential penalties against employers who fail to offer coverage) pushes more Americans onto the public option and eventually toward a single-payer system.
Another problem that Obama, Reid, Pelosi and all their cronies haven't even addressed in their 2,200 page waste of paper is that (as I have said before) insurance is merely a conduit for the real problem - the real problem is the cost of medical care itself. You can fix insurance all you want, but if the cost of medical care keeps inflating the way it has - those costs will continue increasing the insurance premiums at double-digit rates, which will continue to make insurance less affordable for more and more Americans.
That is why so many millions of American oppose Obamacare - it wastes taxpayer dollars and ultimately puts us back where we started because it won't fix a thing.